Acute pancreatitis: imaging utilization practices in an urban teaching hospital--analysis of trends with assessment of independent predictors in correlation with patient outcomes.

abstract：:Steeple-shaped shadows adjacent to the diaphragm are common in upper lobe collapse due to a variety of causes. They call attention to upper lobe collapse and should not be considered indicative of intrinsic lower lobe abnormality. ...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Kattan KR,Eyler WR,Felson B

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noninvasive breast cancer comprises two distinct entities, lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS) and ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). The increased use of screening mammography has caused more cases of noninvasive breast cancer to be discovered. However, the increased detection of LCIS and DCIS has posed problems in patien...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Rebner M,Raju U

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate spatial resolution requirements for digitized portal images in radiation therapy, observer performance tests were performed. One hundred twenty portal images were digitized with sampling frequencies of 0.700, 0.350, and 0.175 mm for observation. Receiver operating characteristic analysis was used to det...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Okajima K,Nagata Y,Mitsumori M,Ishigaki T,Kimura I,Nakano Y,Minato K,Komori M,Sato K,Takahashi T

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The radiological features of absence of a pulmonary artery are often characteristic enough to allow a diagnosis based on the plain radiograph. They include a small hemithorax, ipsilateral displacement of the mediastinum, absence of the corresponding pulmonary artery, and reticular parenchymal densities, generally attr...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Kleinman PK

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gray-scale ultrasonography of the thyroid was performed in 33 patients, utilizing a commercially available scanning unit and an aqueous gel coupling medium. Solid and cystic lesions could readily be differentiated, but it was impossible to tell benign lesions from malignant tumors. The ultrasound appearance of thyroid...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Chilcote WS

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various complications have been reported after insertion of the Greenfield filter. This report describes an unusual complication after suprarenal placement of this filter: spreading of the filter struts, with perforation of the inferior vena cava, and penetration of the aorta and a vertebral body, followed by fracture...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Kim D,Porter DH,Siegel JB,Simon M

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of stereotaxic localization for fine-needle aspiration biopsy in the detection of recurrent cancer manifested as calcifications on mammograms was evaluated in 43 patients that had been treated with local resection and radiation therapy. Six patients had malignant aspirates and one had an atypical aspirate...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Mitnick JS,Vazquez MF,Roses DF,Harris MN,Schechter S

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Absolute speeds (mR-1) of screen-film systems were determined accurately and precisely from ten independent measurements over a six month period at several beam qualities that included both scatter and scatter-free conditions. The absorbed x-ray energies in the screens that yielded a net film density of 1.0 were obtai...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Kodera Y,Doi K,Chan HP

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To quantify cephalocaudal gradient of lung inflation in acute lung injury in a dog model in prone versus supine position. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Experiments were performed in accordance with Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, as approved by National Research Council (National Institutes of Health...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Lee HJ,Im JG,Goo JM,Kim YI,Lee MW,Ryu HG,Bahk JH,Yoo CG

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-two patients with 24 primary advanced, six persistent, 28 locally recurrent, and four metastatic tumors of the head and neck were treated with combined interstitial low-dose iridium-192 radiation therapy, interstitial 915-MHz microwave hyperthermia (IHT), and external-beam radiation therapy. Diagnoses were squam...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Seegenschmiedt MH,Sauer R,Fietkau R,Iro H,Chalal JA,Brady LW

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To prospectively evaluate multiobserver diagnostic performance and reader agreement for colorectal polyp detection in a well-characterized cohort of patients with increased number of polyps, compared with an average-risk patient, with colonoscopy as the reference standard. MATERIALS AND METHODS:A cohort of 70 ...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： McFarland EG,Pilgram TK,Brink JA,McDermott RA,Santillan CV,Brady PW,Heiken JP,Balfe DM,Weinstock LB,Thyssen EP,Littenberg B

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray tubes having similar resolution capabilities along the central ray were compared for their wide-field characteristics. It has been suggested that focal spot size, and therefore resolution capability, along the cathode-anode axis may vary in a manner which is dependent upon the tube target angle. The authors show...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Bernstein H,Bergeron RT

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positron emission tomography (PET) with fluorine-18 fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) was performed in 19 patients referred for clinical evaluation of soft-tissue masses. These patients had 20 different lesions and had been evaluated previously with computed tomography (CT) and/or magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. The dia...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Griffeth LK,Dehdashti F,McGuire AH,McGuire DJ,Perry DJ,Moerlein SM,Siegel BA

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung abscesses were drained by means of catheters guided by computed tomography (CT) in 19 patients who still had sepsis despite standard medical therapy; all patients had received antibiotics for at least 5 days, and 11 of the 19 patients had undergone bronchoscopy. The abscess was cured (by clinical and radiographic...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： vanSonnenberg E,D'Agostino HB,Casola G,Wittich GR,Varney RR,Harker C

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the degeneration of the ipsilateral substantia nigra after striatal infarction by using magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Twenty-five adult patients with embolic cerebral infarction of the middle cerebral artery distribution underwent MR imaging 0-4, 5-9, 12-15, and 27-29 days ...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Ogawa T,Okudera T,Inugami A,Noguchi K,Kado H,Yoshida Y,Uemura K

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose To investigate whether whole-liver enhancing tumor burden [ETB] can serve as an imaging biomarker and help predict survival better than World Health Organization (WHO), Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST), modified RECIST (mRECIST), and European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) m...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Sahu S,Schernthaner R,Ardon R,Chapiro J,Zhao Y,Sohn JH,Fleckenstein F,Lin M,Geschwind JF,Duran R

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate prospectively the accuracy of indirect magnetic resonance (MR) arthrography for supraspinatus tendon tears during neutral positioning or abduction and external rotation (ABER) and neutral positioning. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Informed consent was obtained in all patients, and the study was approved by...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Herold T,Bachthaler M,Hamer OW,Hente R,Feuerbach S,Fellner C,Strotzer M,Lenhart M,Paetzel C

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose To determine if a reduced-dose computed tomography (CT) protocol could effectively help to identify patients in the emergency department (ED) with moderate to high likelihood of calculi who would require urologic intervention within 90 days. Materials and Methods The study was approved by the institutional rev...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Moore CL,Daniels B,Singh D,Luty S,Gunabushanam G,Ghita M,Molinaro A,Gross CP

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In some patients with right-lower-lobe collapse a triangular shadow was seen in the right upper lung field, continuous with the mediastinum and with its apex pointing toward the right hilus. This represents a shift of the upper anterior mediastinum to the right and may be mistaken for right-upper-lobe collapse or an i...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Kattan KR,Felson B,Holder LE,Eyler WR

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the potential of quantitative susceptibility (QS) and R2* mapping as surrogate biomarkers of clinically relevant, age-adjusted demyelination and iron deposition in multiple sclerosis (MS). MATERIALS AND METHODS:All study participants gave written informed consent, and the study was approved by the ...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Rudko DA,Solovey I,Gati JS,Kremenchutzky M,Menon RS

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine whether addition of quality measure (QM) of shear-wave (SW) velocity (Vs) estimation can increase SW elastography sensitivity for breast cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS:With written informed consent, this institutional review board-approved, HIPAA-compliant study included 143 women (mean age, 48.5 y...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Barr RG,Zhang Z

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-three patients were prospectively examined with ultrasound (US) for acute or recurrent Achilles tendon symptoms. Three types of pathologic conditions of the Achilles tendon were found: tendinitis/tenosynovitis, acute tendon trauma, and postoperative changes. US appears to enable differentiation of these conditi...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Blei CL,Nirschl RP,Grant EG

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-two patients with a known primary malignancy and a symptomatic malignant pleural effusion underwent small-bore-catheter thoracostomy and talc pleurodesis. Twenty-three patients (72%) had a complete response; four (12%), a partial response; and five (16%), no response. Symptoms in all those who responded were cl...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Marom EM,Patz EF Jr,Erasmus JJ,McAdams HP,Goodman PC,Herndon JE

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1978 and 1982, 1,200 patients underwent angiography following acute traumatic injury, and arterial injuries were detected in 182 cases (15.2%). Two-thirds of the cases were associated with penetrating trauma; half the injuries occurred in the pelvis or lower extremities. The most common and reliable sign of ar...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Sclafani SJ,Cooper R,Shaftan GW,Goldstein AS,Glanz S,Gordon DH

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author's experience with 72 patients with impotence, one patient with Peyronie disease (no impotence), and two healthy volunteers indicates that incompetence of the venocclusive mechanism of the corpora cavernosa is probably the most common cause of vasculogenic impotence. Manometric and angiographic studies are t...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Bookstein JJ

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clonogenic cell survival of in situ 9L brain tumors was measured in air-breathing rats and rats killed with nitrogen. Animals were irradiated with BEVALAC accelerated carbon ions in the plateau and spread-out Bragg peak regions of the specific ionization curve. The relative biological effectiveness (RBE) for carbon io...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Wheeler KT,Deen DF,Leith JT,Norton KL

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiographs and CT images taken during oral cholecystography in dogs were interpreted in an independent, blind fashion by three radiologists on two occasions and visual assessment of gallbladder density compared to the actual CT values. While there was significant intra- and inter-observer variation, the mean scores f...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Fon GT,Hunter TB,Berk RN,Patton DD,Capp MP

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose To estimate the risk of cataract in a cohort of nuclear medicine (NM) radiologic technologists on the basis of their work histories and radiation protection practices. Materials and Methods In the years 2003-2005 and 2012-2013, 42 545 radiologic technologists from a U.S. prospective study completed questionnai...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Bernier MO,Journy N,Villoing D,Doody MM,Alexander BH,Linet MS,Kitahara CM

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess the reproducibility of the magnetic resonance (MR) estimate of blood oxygen saturation (sO(2)) in the rat brain, to evaluate the relationship between low MR estimate of sO(2) values and tissue hypoxia in a hypoxic and necrotic glioscarcoma model (9L gliosarcoma cells), and to evaluate the capability o...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Lemasson B,Christen T,Serduc R,Maisin C,Bouchet A,Le Duc G,Rémy C,Barbier EL

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate aortoiliac aneurysms repaired with endovascular stent-grafts complicated by hemodynamically significant graft stenosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Fifty-four patients (52 men, two women; age range, 41-90 years; mean age, 75 years) with aneurysms of the infrarenal aorta (n = 36) or iliac artery (n = 18) ...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Silberzweig JE,Marin ML,Hollier LH,Mitty HA,Parsons RE,Cooper JM,Ahn J

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00